While most places celebrated Columbus Day this week, some cities preferred to remember the native people whose fortunes suffered from the “discovery” of the “New” World.
Over the Columbus Day weekend at the Folk Project Acoustic Getaway, the Jammin’ Divas sang about a similar situation, the plight of Australia’s “Stolen Generations.”
During the last century, the government removed Aboriginal children from their families. The Divas’ Kath Buckell, an Australian, met a woman who had been taken from her parents and did not meet her mother for 50 years.
The woman was determined to prevent bitterness from destroying her, according to Buckell, who was inspired to write this song, To Forgive and Accept.
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